November 24th, 2009
After seeing this fake on Fibsons.com, Stu sent in details of his surprisingly similar “J-50″
“here’s some pics of my fake J-50. you can see the headstock shape is wrong, actually its a “Mitchell” i looked at a couple of dozen headstocks on ebay and other sites before i realized thats what it is…”
“its got some budget grover tuners, and a crazy label that puts production during a year the J-50 wasnt offered. you can see the 3 piece neck, not something gibson has done, the a-baloney sound hole ring, and the truss rod at the soundhole end of the neck.”
Thank you Stu for sending in the pictures and for showing us the irregularities in the guitar, as well as the Mitchell information. Now we all know what these guitars really are.
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November 17th, 2009
Look at the size of that 12 string headstock! That could be used in an olde English boat race, just cut the neck off at the body and heave, and heave, and hea…
It’s a fake EDS-1275, and while the general body shape isn’t an immediate giveaway there are plenty more on offer.
Apart from the oversized 12 string headstock, dodgy headstocks and the usual pick up cover decals, (never on a real Gibson), the most noticeable thing to a Gibson fan boy is that it has three control knobs, meaning three pots, meaning where the hell did the other Tone (we’ll assume) pot go? Fine on my Flying V, or on an Explorer, but an EDS-1275, like the SG and the Les Paul before it, should have two Volume Controls and two Tone Controls, which this doesn’t have. Add to the use of single ply scratch plate and truss rod covers, and the usual frets being put in place after the binding there is no doubt that this is a fake.
The biggest mystery to me is not it’s authenticity, it’s where do you plug it in? There is no input for your guitar cable to plug into, not content with making copies of robot guitar do they now employ built in wireless?
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